I am just starting to run into this problem and I would be pleased if you all could contribute some thoughts. Here it is.

A lot has been written on cell-phone etiquette, regarding yakking on the phone in public. But what about behavior toward the people who are trying to call you?

Suppose you get a call. You look at the incoming number and recognize it as a friend of yours. If you are free to take it, either you pick it up our you don't, basically saying "ah Itazura Ichiban is not worth the time I'd take to answer his call." So you let it go, presumably leaving the I&I to leave an exasperated message, or try calling back later.

Is this rejection? If your friend is standing in front of you, asking to talk, do you put your hand up, and say, "Talk to the hand!"? Or am I just being overly sensitive? Should I just leave a message and trust my friends to call me back when they feel like it? Is it rude to screen friend's calls?

(I apologize that I come from a previous century in which a phone had a dial, and bells, and if you were trying to call a friend, you rang until they picked it up.)
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Itazura ichiban wrote:

Cell phone thread? ok.

Yup: http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.1572.htm&highlight=cell+phone

We've got a thread for everything.

Merging.

^ I would think the same etiquette for home phones would apply here as well...

You mean another thread????



It just seems to me that people use technology to be ruder to each other, instead of using it to come together.
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Itazura ichiban wrote:

(I apologize that I come from a previous century in which a phone had a dial, and bells, and if you were trying to call a friend, you rang until they picked it up.)

Or their answering machine picked up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caoYdiq3kak

Anybody check out Sony's new Xperia X10 cellphone? This phone looks pretty darn cool with lots of processing power and functionality.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/xperiax10

Looks like the Google phone is real, named the Nexus One
December 12, 2009

It�fs looking all-but-official that Google is developing a smartphone of its own using its Android operating system, as reported in TechCrunch last month.

All Google has said officially is that it has developed a �gmobile lab�h device that �gcombines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android,�h and that employees are �gdogfood�h testing the phone. But both TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal say the device is, in fact, the fabled Google phone. (Subscription required for the second link.) The phone will reportedly be called the Nexus One, and Google will sell the device itself, online. Users will then buy cellular plans on their own, from a carrier of their choice.

Until now, Google has only been responsible for Android�fs software. The phones themselves are built and sold by manufacturing and carrier partners. (In fact, the only hardware that Google sells directly is its enterprise Search Appliance, so this will be the first time Google sells a device to consumers.) Why the shift in strategy? Well, the first generation of Android devices hasn�ft really gotten the same attention from either consumers of application developers as Apple�fs iPhone (though there�fs been a bit more buzz about the Droid). This will give Google complete control over the process, though its partners probably won�ft be too happy that the search giant is selling phones that compete with their own Android devices.

The Nexus One will go on sale in 2010, the Journal said �\ that�fs also when Google says its partners will start selling netbooks with its Chrome operating system.

i'm currently using a htc desire. i've had it over a year now without problems. everyone i know that has an iphone has had issues. i will never cave in to mr jobs!!
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kenjilina wrote:

i will never cave in to mr jobs!!

+1.

kenjilina wrote:

i'm currently using a htc desire. i've had it over a year now without problems. everyone i know that has an iphone has had issues. i will never cave in to mr jobs!!

I have 12 iphones...one for every room in my house. j/k. I'm using an HTC Evo.

Tu_triky wrote:

I have 12 iphones...one for every room in my house. j/k. I'm using an HTC Evo.

i'm impressed with htc. they're becoming a major player in europe now.
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Tu_triky wrote:

I have 12 iphones...one for every room in my house. j/k. I'm using an HTC Evo.

I have two soup cans and a really long string.

kenjilina wrote:

i'm impressed with htc. they're becoming a major player in europe now.

In addition to Apple and Samsung, HTC is also achieving phenomenal growth.

I have an Iphone and have never had any real issues with it. AT&T is another story.
The Iphone 4 is now over a year old (basically ancient in technology years), but I would have recommended this phone to anyone when it first came out. Frankly, there's never been an instance when I felt I needed an android, because my phone couldn't do something.

kenjilina wrote:

i will never cave in to mr jobs!!

But you've caved to the Taiwanese.

Jav_sol wrote:

Frankly, there's never been an instance when I felt I needed an android, because my phone couldn't do something.

for me i feel the same but the other way round.
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I'm currently with T-Mobile and was checking out Verizon's Pay as You Go plans... They suck.

Guess I'm staying with T-Mobile.

i have a wifi dongle with a monthly 15gb plan so at work at lunch i watch bbc iplayer.
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bmwracer wrote:

I'm currently with T-Mobile and was checking out Verizon's Pay as You Go plans... They suck. Guess I'm staying with T-Mobile.

Big Red is expensive.
If ATT has their way and manages to buy T-Mobile, prices are only going to increase.

The only reason I still have ATT is because I have a plan that's no longer offered.
$66 (including taxes) unlimited everything.

Jav_sol wrote:

If ATT has their way and manages to buy T-Mobile

I think it's pretty much inevitable.

Samsung Already Planning 4GHz Super Phones?
ARTICLE DATE: 04.18.11
By Peter Pachal

Samsung may be developing phones that run so fast, they'll leave today's most cutting-edge dual-core phones in the dust. The company apparently has dual-core 2GHz smartphones in the works, which would theoretically be capable of 4GHz speeds, says Korea's Maeli Business Newspaper.

"We are planning to release a 2GHz dual-core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year," the paper reports a "high-ranking official" from Samsung said. "This product will have the data processing capacities of a regular PC."

The report comes as dual-core 1GHz phones such as the Motorola Atrix and LG Optimus 2X, which was the world's first dual-core phone, are just beginning to become available. A phone running with two 2GHz chips would technically be capable of running at speeds up to 4GHz, though real-world tests almost never match specs.

In addition to being built into Samsung phones, the chip would probably be marketed to third parties under the company's new Exynos brand, which Samsung unveiled in Feburary. The coming Samsung Galaxy S II and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will feature some of the first Exynos-branded chips.

There's no word about when Samsung might bring to market devices using dual-core 2GHz chips, though such a move would put pressure on competitors like Apple with its A5 and Nvidia with its Tegra 2, both dual-core processors. The dual-core Cortex-A9 design from ARM, which creates the low-power architecture that virtually all mobile processors are based on, is said to be scalable to such speeds. That would most likely be the basis of Samsung's new chip.

Reps for Samsung didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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